From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... sane.
BB p.14,
Bill's Story
2.
... sane and
happy usefulness.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
We have found nothing incompatible between a
powerful spiritual experience and a life of
sane and happy usefulness.
3.
... sane and
logical to believe than not ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Hence we are at pains to tell why we think our present faith is reasonable, why we think it more sane and logical to believe than not
to believe, why we say our former thinking was soft and mushy when we threw up our hands in doubt and said, "We don't know."
4.
... sane and
sound ideal for our future ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
5.
... sane drinking
and alcoholism.
12&12 p.33,
Step Two
They are abetted in this blindness by a world which
does not understand the difference between sane drinking and alcoholism.
6.
... sane, quiet
and full of human understanding, ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
7.
... sane spiritual
program, making a better practical ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.
8.
... sane to
all appearances, immediately answers, "Yes!
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
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